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This video shows Professor Theo van den Hout, Editor of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary, writing a Hittite letter in cuneiform, and W. Raymond Johnson, Field Director of the Oriental Institute’s Epigraphic Survey, writing passages from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. They use rough approximations of the ancient writing tools. This video was produced by Tiffany Salone of the Chicago Media Initiatives Group for the Oriental Institute Museum special exhibit “Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the